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Fordham University Press, New York
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
'Being of Two Minds' examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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'Being of Two Minds' examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literature and its ability to mediate between the one and the many, the particular and the general, life and death, the past and the present. If reading and writing literature enables the mind to be in two places at once, creative experience serves as a way to participate in an expanded field of consciousness alongside mortality. Goldberg reads the readings that these modernists performed on texts that Eliot claimed for the canon like the metaphysical poets and Jacobean dramatists, but also Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, and Margaret Cavendish.
